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Jeffrey S. Chase, Aug. 11, 2019
"In June 2018, the Attorney General issued his precedent decision in Matter of A-B- . The AG intended his decision to lead to the denial of asylum claims based on domestic violence and gang violence by asylum officers...
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Jeffrey S. Chase, July 5, 2019
"On July 2, the Department of Justice published final regulations impacting how decisions of immigration judges will be reviewed, both on appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals and by certification to the Attorney...
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Jeffrey S. Chase, June 7, 2019
"On May 31, the BIA published a precedent decision in Matters of Andrade Jaso and Carbajal Ayala . In that decision, Board Member Garry Malphrus (writing for a panel that included Hugh Mullane and Ellen Liebowitz...
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Jeffrey S. Chase, June 3, 2019
"I have previously discussed the implications of the Supreme Court’s 2018 decision in Pereira v. Sessions here and here . There are two aspects to the Pereira decision. The first is the narrow issue presented...
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Jeffrey S. Chase, Apr. 21, 2019
“K.H., a Guatemalan native and citizen, was kidnapped, beaten, and raped in Guatemala when she was seven years old.” That horrifying sentence begins a recent decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth...
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Editor's Note: This is the most important - and damning - exposé of the Immigration Courts to date. Please read every word.
Jeffrey S. Chase, Mar. 28, 2019
" The following is the transcript of my lecture on March 28, 2019 at Cornell...
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Jeffrey S. Chase, Mar. 19, 2019
"This past Friday, the Department of Homeland Security’s random policy change deeming youths between the ages of 18 and 20 years old ineligible for special immigration protection ran into a brick wall in the...
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Jeffrey S. Chase, Feb. 10, 2019
"“ How did we get here? How the hell…
Pan left - close on the steeple of the church .”
Jonathan Larson, “Halloween,” from Rent
The above lines popped into my head as I...
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Jeffrey S. Chase, Jan. 7, 2019 - "This morning, the trial began in Saget v. Trump , before District Judge William Kuntz in the Eastern District of New York. As your Brooklyn observer, I attended the opening hours of what is likely to be a two or...
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Jeffrey S. Chase, Dec. 24, 2018 - "Six months after a significant number of U.S. immigration judges cheered a decision intended to revoke the hard-earned right of domestic violence victims to asylum protection, immigration advocates had their chance...
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Jeffrey S. Chase, Dec. 13, 2018 - "In a November 16 memo to immigration judges, EOIR’s Director, James McHenry, announced that after a nearly two-year reprieve, “Family Unit” cases are again being prioritized, under conditions designed...
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Jeffrey S. Chase, Dec. 8, 2018 - "Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, a court generally known for its conservatism, issued an order granting an emergency stay of removal in the case of Manuel Leonidas Duran-Ortega v. U...
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Hon. Jeffrey S. Chase, Aug. 5, 2018 - "An amicus brief was recently filed on behalf of a group of 20 former Immigration Judges and BIA Members (including myself) in the case of Rodriguez et. al. v. Robbins . The case, which was remanded back to the...
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Jeffrey S. Chase, July 22, 2018 - "It is difficult not to cry (as I did) while listening to the recording of a recent immigration court hearing at a detention facility near the border. The immigration judge addresses a rape victim who fled to this...
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